Haiti

Trudeau government to waste $80.5M of your dollars on pointless Kenya-led mission to improve security in Haiti

OTTAWA – Canada is putting $80.5 million toward a mission to improve security conditions in Haiti, where rampant gang violence has caused an ongoing crisis.

Global Affairs Canada says the money will go towards a multinational security mission led by Kenya to support efforts by the Haitian National Police.

It’s expected to support training, communications and logistics for police deployed to the mission and expertise in areas like human rights due diligence.

Professional courtesy? Haiti ranks 173rd out of 180 countries in the corruption index.

Haiti – FLASH : Haiti last in the Caribbean and 2nd worst corrupt country in the Americas (2023)

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti, WTF?

Blackie dodges Haiti duty!

Canada on sidelines as Haiti finally gets an armed intervention against gang violence

Back in February, the Caricom group of Caribbean nations met in Nassau to discuss ways to reduce the chaos and violence in its biggest member state — Haiti.

Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis acknowledged that the problem was too big for the bloc of small island nations to deal with on its own.

“What we at CARICOM have come to appreciate is that we do not have the resources to be able to deal with the Haiti problem ourselves, and we do need outside help,” he said.

… The story of Canada’s involvement in Haiti over the past two years is above all a story of a government determined not to get drawn into a potential quagmire.

I find myself oddly in agreement with Bytown Blackie.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti

Joly says Canadians ‘want to do more’ to help Haiti as military intervention looms

OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is determining how it can best help with an international military intervention in Haiti, but a fellow Liberal MP says it’s unlikely that will involve any military role for Canada.

“Canada has always been involved in issues related to Haiti. We will continue to be,” Joly told reporters Tuesday morning on Parliament Hill, in French.

Haiti is irredeemably awful. Must be a lot of easy money to be had playing white savior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti, WTF?

Haiti violence: gang guns down churchgoers protesting against criminals

At least seven people were killed in Haiti, a rights group said, after a powerful gang that controls a northern suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince, opened fire with machine guns on a protest organised by a Christian church leader.

Hatian rights group CARDH director Gedeon Jean said the final number killed would probably be higher, adding that several people were wounded and some churchgoers had been kidnapped, after they marched through the community on Saturday trying to rid the area of gang members. Local media reported at least 10 participants were killed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHaiti

‘It’s hell’: vigilantes take to Haiti’s streets in bloody reprisals against gangs

As Vélina Élysée Charlier ventured on to the streets of her conflict-stricken city last week, she encountered scenes that will haunt her for many years to come.

Armed civilians dragging bodies through the streets. Smouldering corpses. Young men with machetes chasing suspected gangsters they planned to kill.

“I’ve seen enough dead people for many lifetimes,” said the Haitian human rights activist. “Since Monday, if you get killed, you get burned. It’s kill, burn, kill, burn … It’s nothing I would want anyone else to witness. It stays with you … It’s hell, you know?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHaiti

Haitian ‘gang members’ beg for mercy before vigilante lynch mob stones then burns them alive

This is the horrifying moment suspected Haitian gang members beg for mercy before a vigilante lynch mob stones and burns them alive.

The mob beat and burned 13 men to death with gasoline-soaked tyres on Monday after pulling them from police custody at a traffic stop, police and witnesses in the capital Port-au-Prince said.

Six more burned bodies were seen in a nearby neighbourhood later on in the day, and witnesses claimed to have seen police kill them before residents set them on fire. News agencies said this could not be verified.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHaiti

Joe Biden is about to ask Canadians to go stabilize Haiti. Here’s how huge the job is

Vincent Harris arrived in Haiti earlier this year to heal bodies.

Two weeks ago, the medical adviser for Doctors Without Borders found himself instead in the midst of the country’s war.

“There was a really violent clash between two armed groups,” Harris said this week from Port-au-Prince. “Unfortunately, the front line where those groups met was directly in front of the doors of the hospital.”

How bout we just stay out of it?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti, USA

Haiti’s sudden turn for the worse puts Trudeau on the spot

“There’s one event that tells it all,” Haitian businessman Marco Larosilière told CBC News from his home in Port-au-Prince.

“Last week, the general inspector of the national police was kidnapped with his son in front of his school.”

If a high-ranking official of the national police is not safe, said Larosilière, “what about the rest of the population?”

Toronto armoured vehicle company rejects Haiti’s claim it hasn’t lived up to its word

Haiti’s troubled government is accusing Canada of stalling in its promised delivery of armoured vehicles, and argues the delay is hindering a plan to clear violent gangs from Port-au-Prince.

Yet the Toronto company making the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles says it’s working as fast it can in the face of supply-chain disruptions and mistakes by Haitian officials.

C’mon Even CAF is saying they’re not up to the task of taming Haiti’s Gangs. That’s how pathetic our government and armed forces are.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti, USA

Canada sending two small, slow naval ships to Haiti: Here’s what they might do there

Haiti is definitely a country in need. Armed gangs have taken control of much of the nation. Murder and kidnapping is rampant. And the government seems incapable of asserting its authority over the widespread lawlessness.

What’s less clear is how two small, relatively slow and lightly armed Canadian naval ships just deployed to Haiti can help alleviate its troubles — troubles that for the most part exist on land, not at sea.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti, WTF?

Nobody wants to help Haiti for some reason …

As Haiti Unravels, U.S. Officials Push to Send in an Armed Foreign Force

Fearing a mass exodus, some Biden officials are pressing for a multinational force, but they don’t want to send U.S. troops and haven’t been able to persuade other countries to take the lead.

After days of gunfights in early November, Haitian police officers emerged triumphant: They had finally liberated the nation’s biggest port from the gangs that had taken it over for two months.

But when members of Haiti’s SWAT team returned to the shantytown that surrounds the port just days later, they still did not feel safe enough to even leave their armored truck.

The officers anxiously scanned rows of rusty shacks for hidden gunmen, too wary of the danger outside to open the doors.

The upshot was clear: The police keep trying to fight back, but gangs still run much of Haiti.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHaiti

Haitian political parties must all agree to Canadian military intervention, says Trudeau

Canadian military intervention in Haiti can’t happen unless all political parties in the troubled nation agree to it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday.

Trudeau was speaking from Tunisia where leaders of French-speaking governments and international organizations held a roundtable on Haiti on the final day of the two-day Francophonie summit.

NO.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti, WTF?

Quebec man charged with terrorism, planning to overthrow Haitian government

The RCMP say a 51-year-old Quebec man has been charged with planning a terrorist act to overthrow the Haitian government of Jovenel Moise.

Police say Gerald Nicolas will appear at the Quebec City courthouse on Dec. 1 to face three terrorism-related charges.

Nicolas is charged with leaving Canada to facilitate a terrorist activity, facilitating a terrorist activity and providing property for terrorist purposes.

Haiti is not our problem.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHaiti, WTF?

Trudeau says Canadians ‘have to intervene’ somehow in Haiti, convenes incident group

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet today with key cabinet ministers about the situation in Haiti.

The collection of cabinet ministers known as the Incident Response Group meets only when something has “major implications for Canada.”

Trudeau says Canada is weighing how to respond to Haiti’s request for military intervention, amid widespread violence and a deadly cholera outbreak.

Justin should ask his Chinese buddies to lend a hand. We have no business there, not even Haitians do.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHaiti

OH BOY … HAITI BOUND

Canadian officials return from Haiti as Ottawa weighs military response to crisis

A team tasked with assessing the crisis in Haiti has returned home and is now briefing senior officials as the Canadian government weighs a potential military mission to assist the beleaguered Caribbean nation, according to Canada’s ambassador to Haiti.

Ambassador Sebastien Carriere said Monday that Canada will be expected to take a leading role in assisting the country, which has been plunged into chaos due to rampaging gangs and a worsening cholera outbreak.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti, WTF?

Blinken, Joly dodge question of Canada’s possible role in military mission in Haiti

OTTAWA – Efforts to organize a multilateral military intervention in gang-ravaged Haiti are ongoing – but neither Antony Blinken nor Melanie Joly was willing to say publicly Thursday whether Canada would be tapped to lead it.

The U.S. secretary of state and his Canadian foreign-affairs counterpart met in Ottawa on day 1 of Blinken’s two-day visit north of the border, his first in person since becoming the Biden administration’s top diplomat last year.

Our transvestites will love the tropical climate!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHaiti, WTF?